About two years ago Ed Catmull’s talk on keeping your crises small made the internet circuit (video of his speech). Now the Harvard Business Review has another great object lesson, that once again involves Ed Catmull. This time it’s a bit of Pixar mythology –… Read More »Another Business Lesson from Pixar
The Walt Disney Company continues to march ahead with its promotional campaign to win the Best Picture Academy Award for Pixar’s Toy Story 3. It’s not a question of which film is the best reviewed, Toy Story 3 wins that, the question is will members… Read More »Does Toy Story 3 Have A Chance at Best Picture Oscar
If you read the popular blog Techdirt then you know how out of hand this whole ‘publicity rights’ thing is getting. A lawsuit against Pixar stating that Lightning McQueen was based off of an existing race car (also red with the number 95) takes the… Read More »Court rules Pixar did not infringe with Lightning McQueen
After the recent despicable actions of Unite Here Local 11 at the Disneyland resort, I had resolved not to comment on their campaign for improved working conditions and better health care coverage for their members. But their current campaign is much more powerful and, if… Read More »Could Union Protests derail Toy Story 3 Oscar Run?
Think back to the days when there was a real possibility that Pixar would leave the Disney family due to bad feelings created when executives at Disney attempted to push the boys from Emeryville around. It was pretty touch and go there for awhile, but… Read More »Toy Story 3 – Disney’s Circle Seven Version
It’s Thanksgiving and at the Frost household it’s time for some turkey and all the fixin’s. In the spirit of the flavorful bird, I’m kicking off what might turn out to be an annual tradition here at The Disney Blog, the awarding of the Biggest… Read More »Happy Thanksgiving from The Disney Blog
A message of hope from employees at Pixar Animation Studios. It gets better. – Love, Pixar. Pixar employees seriously rock. http://www.itgetsbetter.org/. Music courtesy of Geographer. http://www.geographermusic.com
Yesterday the LA Times had a front page story that reported Disney Animation is closing the book on fairy tales. I immediately thought that this was either an over-reaction by the reporter or a purposeful statement by Disney to set expectations on Tangled, or both.… Read More »Don’t bury Fairy Tales at Disney just yet